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HW requirements
- From: "Erik Jessen" <ejessen at adelphia dot net>
- To: "'Hans Ronne'" <hronne at comhem dot se>,"'Eric McDonald'" <mcdonald at phy dot cmich dot edu>
- Cc: <xconq7 at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 11:07:51 -0800
- Subject: HW requirements
What about HW requirements (CPU speed, RAM, disk)?
Where I'm going with this, is that machines typically have a 3-year
life-span. (before drives die, etc.). So, figure 80-90% of customer
base has a machine built since 2001.
Now, there will be people running older machines, but won't they also
want newer/faster CPUs, just to run the AI, and to have enough GDI to
run the program at all?
Now, I don't know what a mainstream machine was 3 years ago, but if
somebody could say, that'd help clarify just what kind of resources are
going to be available to players.
And thus, what kinds of resources the developers can count on being
present.
Erik
-----Original Message-----
From: xconq7-owner@sources.redhat.com
[mailto:xconq7-owner@sources.redhat.com] On Behalf Of Hans Ronne
Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 9:56 AM
To: Eric McDonald
Cc: xconq7@sources.redhat.com
Subject: RE: New Action: change-type
>On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Erik Jessen wrote:
>
>> Just to ask, what's the min hardware requirements & OS we're
targeting?
>> One can buy a brand-new machine from Dell for about $300...
>
>Well, the minimum software specs we seem to be targetting is C89
>compliance. If a machine can build at least one of the Xconq
>interfaces with a C89 compiler and is running MacOS (with >= PPC
>processor), 32-bit Windows, or a fairly modern Unix, then it seems
>to be one that we are interested in supporting.
>
>Eric
In terms of OS's:
Windows NT, 2000 and XP - Fully supported.
Windows 98, SE and ME - Supported, but with reduced quality graphics*.
Windows 95 - Not supported (might still work).
* These older Windows versions have only 2MB of GDI resource memory.
MacOS 8.6 and above - Fully supported.
MacOS 8.1 to 8.5 - Fully supported native interface. No help system in
the
tcltk interface*.
MacOS 7.0 to 8.0 - Not supported (might still work).
* The obstack code and tcltk do not work well together under these older
MacOS versions.
Another limit is the amount of memory needed by Xconq (at least 24 MB).
This means that you are unlikely to be able to run it on machines with
ancient OS's.
Hans